Essays 361 - 390
tendencies within society and the fact that people are far too concerned with their own well being to fend for those who cannot fe...
not merely things to be used to reach ones goal, but are sentient beings with worth beyond measure. The golden rule may be interp...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
personal desire to do so, rather than depending upon automatic reaction or stimulation. "The skeptic, therefore, had better keep ...
there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...
past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
and Cavaliers differ somewhat from those that are associated with Europe. What we most often remember in America is the differenc...
strive for bigger and better opportunities, to reach beyond what has become comfortable and consistent in order to attain that whi...
(Amin, 1997; p. 8). In many ways we experience, and have experienced, growth of cultures through diversity, which provides us ...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...
are the natural order of things. Are there coincidences, or do no coincidences exist? Much again, has to do with how a person perc...
Brian Vickers portrays Plato as an intellectual Odysseus, stealthily stealing the rhetorical arsenal of the sophists and using it ...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
himself, without mischief reaching at least to his near connexions, and often far beyond them"(Mills,9). John Stuart Mill seemed ...
is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...
to attain a better existence for itself, it has inadvertently caused a domino effect when it comes to such personal pursuits. It ...
the buying and selling of human beings. How would a Kantian analyze the ethics of slavery? How might a utilitarian, a social con...
Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...
well-being but our physical well-being also. For instance, Terry (54) tells us that music has been widely recommended as a techni...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
possible fat man in that doorway; and again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible men, or two possibl...
of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...
one may see it as quasi-scientific determinism. Yet, from a Western point of view, Buddhism is considered to be indeterministic (A...
once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...